TTG BIT N - (7=3)

This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Tape Extracts:

Four years after Morse’s transmission, in 1848 in New York state, two sisters reported hearing knocking, wrapping, and banging sounds at night that weren’t being made by anyone in the house.

In time the Fox sisters started to communicate with the entity making these sounds.

On March the 31st, Kate, the youngest, invited it to repeat the snappings of her fingers. She then asked it to knock out her age and that of her sister Margaret and of their older sister Leah who had moved away.

12, 15, 17.

Over the next few days they devised a code which included yes, no, and letters of the alphabet.

Then the Fox family fled the house to nearby Rochester. The tapping spirit followed.

Kate and Margaret became famous, demonstrating the first paid public seance in November 1849 and going onto successful careers as spirit mediums until their confession nearly 40 years later in 1888 that it was…

TTG BIT N - (6=4)

This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Tape Extracts:

Once you’ve abstracted communication out to something that can happen instantaneously with no idea of who or what is on the other end of the line; it’s easy to take the abstraction one step further and imagine communication with entities on other planes of existence.

TTG BIT N - (5=9)

This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Tape Extracts:

If we accept that it was indeed a hoax then it was one enabled and accelerated by the communications technologies of the day.

Voirrey’s imagination was fed by information that made it to the farmhouse at Cashen's gap.

Through books, newspapers, radio.

This was one of the things that made Gef more interesting than the usual haunting where the voices tend to bang on about the ethereal mysteries of the…

TTG BIT N - (4=6)

The Fox sisters were three sisters from New York who played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism: Leah (1814–1890), Margaretta (also called Maggie) (1833–1893) and Catherine (also called Kate ) Fox (1837–1892).[1] The two younger sisters used "rappings" to convince their older sister and others that they were communicating with spirits. Their older sister then took charge of them and managed their careers for some time. They all enjoyed success as mediums for many years.

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This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Tape Extracts:

And people have been communing with voices from other planes of existence with some regularity.

1931.

Accounts of contact with strange creatures, or spirits, weren’t that uncommon. The spiritualist movement, kickstarted by the accounts of the Sisters Fox, had been running for about 45 years now and people…

TTG BIT N - (3=2)

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.

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This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Tape Extracts:

On May the 24th, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first long distance telegraph message across America from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore.

He sent…

from the Bible’s book of numbers.

Frames the telegraph as a gift from a higher power.

From God to Morse to the rest of us.

Morse is merely channeling God’s wi…

TTG BIT N - (2=8)

Gef (/ˈdʒɛf/ JEF), also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was the name given to an allegedly talking mongoose which was claimed to inhabit a farmhouse owned by the Irving family. The Irvings' farm was located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry Price, Hereward Carrington, and Nandor Fodor. Some investigators of the era as well as contemporary critics have concluded that Voirrey Irving used ventriloquism and family collusion to perpetuate the hoax.

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This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Tape Extracts:

Of course, Gef couldn’t speak at first. He just squealed and thumped inside the walls of the house.

However, in time he started to make gurgling noises like a child.

And with encouragement from the isolated Irvings, he picked up English. Not least through Jim’s daily reading to him from the newspaper.

Gef could also speak the odd phrase of Russian, Spanish, and…

TTG BIT N - (1=1)

This series is written by Henry Cooke and produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Original music and sound design by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Tape Extracts:

First up, a word of warning.

It turns out this is an ambitious topic to fit into half an hour.

I’ll be glossing over a few things, passing by others at speed.

I’m assuming that everyone’s clever and has Google to follow things up later.

I’ve also published a lot of notes and references online, which, which I’ll be giving out the address of…

With that said…

Samples from Anodyne - "Building a community..."

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Tabula rasa (/ˈtæbjələ ˈrɑːsə, -zə, ˈreɪ-/) 

In Locke's philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory that at birth the (human) mind is a "blank slate" without rules for processing data, and that data is added and rules for processing are formed solely by one's sensory experiences. 

Tape Extracts:

Julie Shapiro: It's funny how it was like a part of my life then, but really was like a foundation for everything that's come since. Building of a community of readers, by involving people as participants, was part of the plan a little bit. 

Angeline Gragásin: I'm happy to support Julie and her work in any way I can. 

Tania Ketenjian: Whatever Julie is involved with, immediately my ears perk up.

Allyson McCabe: I know that she has a sort of zine name, which was Julie Atomic, and I was always sort of curious where it came from.

Whitney Henry-Lester: Pretty much anything  that Julie does I am happy to participate in.

Simon Roche: Someone said, I know this girl you should send her one of those. And, I did and then she was like Oh, my god, I love the printed word.

Garrett Tiedemann: Samples from Anodyne.

Offbeat: Bellhop (#ShortDocs 2016 Submission)

"We were lied to." This short audio work was produced for the 2016 #ShortDocs competition held by the Third Coast International Audio Festival. This piece was inspired by the "film noir" mini-movie produced by Manual Cinema. In addition to original music by Garrett D. Tiedemann there are music tracks by Manual Cinema within the mix as required by the competition for this year. To learn more about this year's competition and view the film inspirations from Manual Cinema visit Third Coast: http://thirdcoastfestival.org/competitions/shortdocs/2016

Tape Extracts:

I awoke from a dream. Trees lined the city. Night turned on. And we were still.

Kids playing.

(whisper) Why are they so loud?

There is no anxiety. No trace of despair. No pain. No regret. Or any sadness as one falls from great mountain heights. 

Instead the person who is falling often hears beautiful music while surrounded by superbly blue heaven that is filled with rosette clouds. And then suddenly, and painlessly, sensations are extinguished immediately from the body at the exact moment that the body makes contact with the ground.

I awoke from a dream. 

On these tapes was a man. A wall of a man. Held up.

(newsreel) Clearly this is going to have psychological importance.

In the story she asked the most fundamental questions. I work myself to keep from receding into the distance. To find her, playing in the streets, oblivious to the goings on of a tired old man. 

Fingers bleeding. Looking for a burial. Sunlight long in the distance. 

(deep voice buried in newsreel and other audio) Alright, we have to take him away.

Offbeat: Waiting for Charon

"Waiting for Charon" was produced by Garrett D. Tiedemann for The Sarahs' Very Very Short, Short Stories Contest. The challenge was to create a 2-3 minute audio fiction piece inspired by one of 3 sentences. This piece was inspired by Mary Morris' sentence: “The Gem sisters slept in the order in which they were born.” It was mixed, edited, and scored by Garrett D. Tiedemann.

Tape Extracts:

On this as we pass.

On this as we pass.

On this as we pass.

As we say goodbye.

We bury them in the mud.

(child singing) In the mud, in the mud, in the mud, in the mud. (Indiscernible) scoop some mud in the mud.

A wise old owl lived in an oak.

The more he saw the less he spoke.

The less he spoke the more he heard.

Why can't we all be like that wise old bird.

(unknown woman) Hello? Yes. Hi, can you hear me ok.

(indiscernible voices and sound)

(unknown woman 2) I didn't say that right. Or did I?

Bury them in the mud.

(indiscernible voices and sound)

(unknown woman 2) Ok, ok, I'm gonna stop because I don't know what else to say right now.

(unknown woman) Hello?

(unknown man) Yes, this is John.

(unknown woman) Yes. Hi, can you hear me ok?

(unknown man) I know why you're calling.

(unknown woman) I can totally hear you.

(unknown man) You did? Oh, you did?

(unknown woman) I think I'm doing everything right. Got a good signal.

(unknown man) I guess that's it then. Thanks anyway.

(unknown woman 2) So, I would just sit and stare out at the trees.